MAG 19-20 (the statement of Father Edwin Burroughs) is so interesting to me because it highlights the desire to profane that which you love.
the inability to pray, forced bible verses, and botched confession are all perversions of his vocation; Bethany O’Connor tells him that whatever had possessed her wanted his ‘faith’. Father Burroughs states both that he’d been driven to despair and that he still believes in God. even in the ‘depths of [his] mania’, the lights of the Oratory on Woodstock were comforting to him, and he looked for comfort again in the liturgies of the final mass. in the end, it is unclear if he still can’t pray or if he doesn’t try anymore. but there is never any real fear of his faith, and he doesn’t lose it entirely, so I can only assume that the entity possessing him simply wanted to violate/mar his faith.
and this violation, like others in the podcast, happens by choice. even when he knew something was wrong, that he could have left, Father Burroughs proceeded with the mass. he says it ‘felt like the direst of blasphemies. I didn’t stop, though.’
beyond funny how m*rtin refrains from researching anything for the lost johns’ cave statement bc he’s ‘a bit claustrophobic’ and the immediate next episode is jon reading through arachnophobia.
I’m trying to get S1 done by the time TMA ends, and then I’ll hafta see how I’m feeling about doing the rest. I really want to do all of them though! There’s just,,,so many,,, Please motivation gods, give me the motivation
And that’s a wrap on the Magnus Archives Season 1 covers! Thanks again for all the kind words and encouragement! (What do y’all think, should I continue with s2? The correct answer is yes)
can’t believe I forgot that vampires canonically exist in the tmaverse…. anyway, in love with the person in the comments of the wiki page theorising that the vampires were end-stage avatars of the Hunt, and that newborn Hunt avatars often being vampire killers makes sense as a circle of life thing.
Jonah Magnus ‘rattling around an Edinburgh townhouse, surrounded by piles of ghostly accounts and lunatic documentation’ is so workshop of filthy creation core <3
